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Aliens: Colonial Mediocrity

By Dylan Jonas, Contributor
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I a drunken stupor I
preordered Altens: Colonial
Marines (released February 12)
on Steam, and after sobering
up, realized J irresponsibly
spent money ona game I had
previously never heard of.
Rather than argue with myself
though, I decided to give the
game a chance.

In Aliens: Colonial Marines,
you are, as you may have
already guessed, a marine in
space, shooting aliens with
a gun (what else could a boy
want?), and that’s about as
complicated as it gets. But as
you trek on, you start to notice
some of the game's negative

qualities. Enemy xenomorphs
glide across or simply fall
through the floor upon being
shot. The environments are
dark, murky, and painful to look
at. But the worst part, which
one should notice right away,
are the controls. When you have
to look up in the menu how to
do something more than once,
like I did, you know something
is severely wrong. After an
hour of playing I had to stop,
knowing if I continued I might
do something regrettable.

But would I regret that
action more than buying this
game? I have to say no. Few
things in life would be more
regrettable than paying full price
for a game of this quality. If you
see it in a discount bin in a few
years then maybe take a look,
but pass on it for now.

‘Side Effects may
include your mind
being blown

By Steven Cayer, Contributor

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It seems like there’s a pill for
everything these days. Most of
these pills, if not all, have certain
side effects. Director Steven
Soderbergh grabbed hold of
that idea and now we have Side
Effects (released February 8).
This psychological thriller
stars a pretty sexy cast: Rooney
Mara, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-
Jones, and Channing Tatum. I
really can’t in good conscience
tell you the plot of this movie
because there are so many twists
and turns that I don’t want to

this fantastic movie. All I’m
going to say is that it’s about a
woman named Emily (Mara),
who is depressed with her
marriage to one Martin (Tatum).
Naturally, she is prescribed pills,
and they begin to have certain
side effects.

One of the things I loved
about this movie was the pacing.
Throughout the entire movie I
never thought about anything
else other than what was
happening at that moment right
in front of me. Soderbergh keeps
us guessing in more ways than
one in the fact that he’s saying
this might be the last movie he
directs. If the fact is true, ] am
happy that Side Effects was his
curtain call.

 

Arts.

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